One's commitment to free speech can only be measured by the protection they would afford to the ideas, comments, jokes, and opinions that they dislike. That's it. That is the foundational principle.

If you think you're entitled not to be offended or annoyed, then you have the mind of a child.

Amen!

Today is International Literacy Day, "to remind policy-makers, practitioners, and the public of the critical importance of literacy for creating more literate, just, peaceful, and sustainable society."

Woman in long dress is looking out the window.

In a hyper-transactional personalistic regime, anything is possible. There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies. Allies turn, opponents submit. What's favored today is out of favor tomorrow. No governing principle supersedes favor and fealty. Don't anchor to any assumptions.

To the point of after using a foreign word to follow immediately by a character translating into English.
Condescending, in fact!

Fintwit archive, 2016.

I know a few. So terrible!

Fintwit archive, 2016.

I really do feel sorry for you!
Hopefully there will be a favorable wind to make the trip a little shorter 🥰
I’m trying.

Happy Passover to my friends!

In a clothing store filled with pro-monarchy-themed T-shirts, a knight asks the salesperson, “Do you have anything that isn’t pro-monarchy?”

A cartoon by Liza Donnelly. #NewYorkerCartoons

Very interesting point of view.

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?

Is it time to move beyond the model of the universal patient?

Government works best when it's mostly invisible, asserting itself only when necessary while keeping the cogs of civic life turning. Being forced to think about governance, and by extension politics, is a parasite on productivity.

I didn’t say. He did.
“ the beautiful clean coal”

Interesting article.

Yes!

No one wants to think about politics all the time. They just want to go about their business. Denying them that is a form of bad governance.

Begun, the trade war has...

Most insightful comment of today!
Funny and real 👍🏼

Zoe was very good!
You right about Emilia Perez

I have a feeling of knowing them in person. So strange. Sad.

I haven’t seen the WH nominated ambassadors to Hollywood.
Shouldn’t they attend this important ceremony? #MelGibson #JohnVoight

Just asking.

In this culture of rampant consumerism, the library is a bastion of counter culture. There one can check out things for free. Great books filled with profound ideas are all available for free.

One benefit of civil society is not having to think about politics all the time. I resent being denied that right.

He is a classless , rude, ignorant bully man.
Now it feels ( to me) and perhaps to many.
USA 🇺🇸, the Best Country that was!
What a shame.

US . 🇺🇸
The country that was!
Never thought I would hear the children say :
“ When I grow up I don’t want to be the President of the USA.